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Digital Age – The Implementers 1 July – 31 December 2020 ”Digitalisation has a huge impact on the way we live, work and communicate. In some fields, Europe has to catch up – like for business to consumers – while in others we are frontrunners – such as in business to business. We have to make our single market fit for the digital age, we need Renew to make the most of artificial intelligence and big data, EPP S&D Europe we have to improve on cybersecurity and we have to work hard for our technological sovereignty.” — Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission Bjoern Seibert Ilze Juhansone Lorenzo Mannelli Klaus Welle François Roux Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen Head of cabinet Secretary General Head of cabinet Secretary General Head of cabinet Secretary General Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager will coordinate the agenda on a Europe fit for the digital age. Ursula von der Leyen David Sassoli Charles Michel Renew S&D Europe COMP Margrethe Vestager Kim Jørgensen Oliver Guersent Irene Tinagli Claudia Lindemann EPP Commissioner Head of Cabinet Director General ECON Committee Chair ECON Secretariat Peter Altmaier Norbert Schultes Federal Minister of Economics Permanent Representation GROW and Energy Kerstin Jorna Greens/EFA Renew Director General Europe EPP Petra de Sutter Panos Konstantopoulos CONNECT IMCO Committee Chair IMCO Secretariat with ITRE with ITRE Thierry Breton Valère Moutarlier Roberto Viola Cristian- Peter Andreas Scheuer Stefanie Schröder Silviu Bușoi Traung Federal Minister of Transport Margrethe Commissioner Head of Cabinet Director General and Digital Infrastructure Permanent Representation Vestager with ITRE with ITRE Cristian- Renew Peter EPP Silviu Bușoi Europe Traung DEFIS Timo Pesonen Nathalie Loiseau Maximilian Schroeder Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Katharina Erdmenger Federal Minister of Defence Director General SEDE Committee Chair SEDE Secretariat Permanent Representation Kim Jørgensen Head of Cabinet RTD Jean-Eric Paquet Director General EPP Christiane Canenbley EPP EPP Deputy head of cabinet Cristian-Silviu Bușoi Peter Traung JRC ITRE Committee Chair ITRE Acting Secretariat Mariya Gabriel Adrienn Király Stephen Quest Anja Karliczek Michael Vorländer Federal Minister of Education Permanent Representation Commissioner Head of Cabinet Director General and Research with EMPL with EMPL EPP Lucia Ďuriš Andreas Nicholsonová Hubert EAC Themis Christophidou Sabine Verheyen Nils Danklefsen Director General CULT Committee Chair CULT Secretariat This document only compiles publicly available information on the date of its release and not does pretend to be exhaustive (e.g. some artistic license was exercised to simplify its visual appearance). visual simplifyits to exercised was license artistic some (e.g. exhaustive be to pretend does not and release its of date the on information available publicly compiles only document This appointments. with future changes in line frequent will be subject to content Its.

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